Norway's Statoil completes sale of Shah Deniz, SCP stake

Norway's Statoil completed the sale of 10 percent of its interest in the Shah Deniz Production Sharing Agreement and the South Caucasus Pipeline Company Limited, Statoil reported.

The transactions were closed on May 1. The consideration for the sale and transfer of these assets is $1.45 billion.

In December, 2014, Statoil signed an agreement to divest a 10-percent share of its 25.5-percent holdings in the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field development project and the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP). The buyers are the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan - SOCAR (6.7 percent) and BP (3.3 percent).